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12 The Singer, the Acrobats and the Bands: A Study of Three Brazilian Films and their Intermedial Characters
Suppia, Alfredo. "12 The Singer, the Acrobats and the Bands: A Study of Three Brazilian Films and their Intermedial Characters". Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema, edited by Lúcia Nagib, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474453004-016
Suppia, A. (2022). 12 The Singer, the Acrobats and the Bands: A Study of Three Brazilian Films and their Intermedial Characters. In L. Nagib (Ed.), Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (pp. 215-227). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474453004-016
Suppia, A. 2022. 12 The Singer, the Acrobats and the Bands: A Study of Three Brazilian Films and their Intermedial Characters. In: Nagib, L. ed. Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474
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Construção is an acclaimed studio album recorded by the Brazilian musician Chico Buarque in 1971. Its title track was named the greatest Brazilian song of all time by Rolling Stone in 2009.
Construção signaled Buarque’s fundamental artistic maturation, both in terms of musical composition and lyrical style, showcasing and transcending his mastery of MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira/Popular Brazilian Music). In addition to its significant esthetic achievement, the album’s implicit criticism of the ruling Brazilian military dictatorship was greeted by the regime’s opponents as an important cultural and socio-political statement, released as it was during the dictatorship’s most repressive period. Because Buarque couched his criticism in such melodic beauty and lyrical obliqueness, and because of its popularity, the regime—surprisingly—neither banned nor censored Construção.
The first track, Deus lhe pague (God Bless You), was arranged with symphonic e
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